[koolrosh]

We are currently working on a mobile version for our website (www.bamza.ca) , so I was checking our Google Analytics for mobile devices to see which devices we should test with. I found that I had no visits to my website from any Blackberry 10 device. This was weird since both me and my partner have a Z10 and we use our smartphone frequently to check the website.

I did a bit of testing and have realized that the BB10 browser shows as "Safari" in Google Analytics. This is a big issue for Blackberry. Most website use Google Analytics to monitor their website traffic and if they do not see any traffic from Blackberry-10 in their statistics, they will never invest in the platform.

BB should fix this ASAP!

[tjseaman]

I also noticed that on Facebook when you go to privacy settings, there's a section somewhere that shows last logged in and it shows Safari. That would be my Z10 I was using.

Yeah probably not good stats for BB10.

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[koolrosh]

Wow! This is a huge issue! Someone needs to be accountable for this. I cannot believe this!

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[ldudiaz]

This should be at the front page of cracberry.com

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[katiepea]

It's probably because of the webkit usage. Chrome used to show as safari at first also for a while. If you look at your browser "About" dialog on the z10 you will see this:


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[Supa_Fly1]

the HTML5 test site shows BB10 browser in beta, at least in the tablet tab results, yet under mobile it isnt so Im unsure why its doing this.

[Iamanonymous62]

It's probably because of the webkit usage. Chrome used to show as safari at first also for a while. If you look at your browser "About" dialog on the z10 you will see this:


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Invalid attachment?

[RECOOL]

Hmm well this a job for you tweeters, let the BB twitter using employers know.

[koolrosh]

It's probably because of the webkit usage. Chrome used to show as safari at first also for a while. If you look at your browser "About" dialog on the z10 you will see this:

You are right, it does seem to be a webkit issue, because the user agent on the browser seems to be indicating that it is a Z10. So we know it's not a coding issue. It is probably a problem on Google's end, but Blackberry needs to be on their case. They need to do everything that is possible to make sure that Google at least reports the browser.

[BaconMunch]

This should be at the front page of cracberry.com

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October 6, 2011, sigh I've been here too long....
Message to RIM: Fix the way Google Analytics reports BlackBerry browser data on new devices. You're helping the competition! | CrackBerry.com

[samab]

Crackberry Kevin has pointed it out 18 months ago --- and it is entirely RIM's fault for not getting this issue resolved with various analytics providers. And wall street will continue to under-estimate the amount of market share RIM has because nobody knows the true browser analytics market share. 3rd party developers don't want to make apps because they see all these 1% analytics market share numbers.

[anon(375378)]

October 6, 2011, sigh I've been here too long....
Message to RIM: Fix the way Google Analytics reports BlackBerry browser data on new devices. You're helping the competition! | CrackBerry.com

Lol, right same here. I was looking for this thread. I had actually forgot about this issue.

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[feldmen01]

Lol, right same here. I was looking for this thread. I had actually forgot about this issue.

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I was going to ask the question of whatever happened to this issue... sad to see it is still an issue.

[koolrosh]

I was going to ask the question of whatever happened to this issue... sad to see it is still an issue.

Very Sad.. Makes me wanna dump all my BlackBerry shares.

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[ldudiaz]

Yea but that was OS7 this is BB10 now and someone should bring it to their attention. Again

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[_dimi_]

So no one thinks they're doing this on purpose? Push out an update once millions of BB10s have been sold so they will - from then on - appear as such. Smart move if you ask me..?

[yhamaie]

I did a bit of testing and have realized that the BB10 browser shows as "Safari" in Google Analytics.

It appears that situations have been improved a little since last year, however, adobe.com still interprets BlackBerry 10 browser as Safari.